For me, books at the end of a series are always a hit or miss. The last book in a series is so significant. It completes the story and ties everything up in a neat bundle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took me a solid nine hours to read, from start to finish. I …read more!

Spot the difference: Okay, this is not what I planned for my second (first real) blog post, but it’s something I feel I should comment on ’ as a Leaky blogger, I finally have a venue through which I can express my opinions! You might have seen the front page of the Half-Blood Prince calendar …read more!

There are a slew of new images online from foreign products set for release along with the sixth film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” this fall. As readers will remember, these product tie-ins feature new looks at a number of characters from the upcoming sixth film. We first have a new image online of …read more!

I’d like to introduce you to a few of my friends. Collectively, we’re known as the Room 3428 Vloggers. Search for us on You Tube. It’s well worth it! Each of us vlogs on a particular day of the week. We ask each other questions, discuss current events, and occasionally challenge one another to daring …read more!

I love to read. So much so that I drive people crazy with my reading habit. The odd thing about reading is that my tastes are everywhere. I have a friend who owns this wonderful book shop, Boomerang Books, who has the same taste in books I do. We like everything! Today my friend and …read more!

It’s always strange to me when a series is finished. Complete. There’s something just so final about the words “The End” that I don’t know what to do when I read them. I definitely feel a sense of closure but also a tugging sense of loss. Is there a hole? No, but I don’t know …read more!

As it is now August, we have an exciting new contest to bring you today. The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Sorting Hat Song Contest asks you to provide the lyrics to the Sorting Hat song one would have heard during Harry’s seventh year at Hogwarts, the year following the Dark Lord’s downfall, or …read more!

Our Lounge wide Harry Potter book club is now open once again and has started reading the third book, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” Join your fellow Leaky Loungers in being with Harry during his third year at Hogwarts and discussing the various aspects and elements that make up the story. This book …read more!

Playbill.com has two new publicity photos online featuring actors Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley) from their upcoming stateside revival of the play “Equus.” The photos, showing the pair together as well as a Radcliffe solo, can be viewed via this link. In addition to this, Playbill is also reporting that performances …read more!

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, have updated their website with additional information regarding some of the content to be found in the new “Tales of the Beedle the Bard” book by J.K. Rowling due December 4 of this year. Noting the material written 18 months before his death, Professor Albus Dumbledore …read more!